Chrystal Path Welcomes You

Reiki healing and helping has become my life.  It is a hands on healing.  Some prefer to hover in the area just above the body as opposed to touching, I like to feel unless the person prefers not to be touched.  Private body areas are never touched even when healing is needed there so be assured of your safety and my disgression. Reiki is a very gentle, very strong healing energy that flows where it is needed even if there is only one touch to one part of your body.

I like to begin with the feet.   Yes this is a bit different from most Reiki practitioners.  I find that beginning with feet grounds us and relaxes you so that you can go with the session and the energy.  I use a bit of accupressure here and there if my hands feel it is needed.  For your sensitivity with feet, I wear thin white cotton gloves which are removed as I move up your body to the crown, then back to your feet in a full body circle.  (gloves back on for the finish)

To guide those in pain or in illness is a wonderful way of life for me.  I love to teach, always wanted to but never knew quite what it was I wanted to teach...until Reiki.  If you would like to learn more, please ask.  It is affordable...it is my belief that all who seek should be able to become Reiki in humble light and health.   My goal is to help all beings, human and animal to wellness, to teach and guide all those seeking relief from pain, illness, grief and more.  I want to help heal them, and to teach them to heal themselves...to be a good channel for Reiki energy if they wish to learn.

You are always fully clothed and can lay on a comfortable Reiki/massage type table OR sit in a comfortable chair. 

Prices range from $25 to $40 depending on the length of our session...most sessions are 40 to 60 mins in length, but can go longer.

Do note that no one goes without help for lack of funds....we can always find a way to exchange something to balance the energy, trade and barter is most welcome.

I like you to drink plenty of water before and after a Reiki session because it will help cleanse your body.  Do try to avoid caffeine, or at least cut back that day and eat lightly. You may feel very relaxed or even sleepy after, but the "call of nature" will bring you around in a bit...these are the toxins and negativity leaving your body.  Reiki feels different to each person.  Some feel a warmth, a vibration, a tingling, a buzzing or even a coolness, some feel absolutely nothing physically but do feel very relaxed and soothed during and after.  Reiki treats the mind, body and soul...cleansing, healing, and soothing.                                                              

  Reiki can also heal and help via distance.  I can send Reiki via phone, using Skype {free camera online connection), Messenger, or I can just "send" it with pure intent to help and heal.  I have a Reiki Shop called Chrystal Path in Knoxville Pa for Reiki in person.  With distance healing you recieve Reiki energy sent to you to help with your specific needs, the same as if I were doing the session in person.  We set a time and you call me or I can call you as my long distance is free.  I like to have a dialog (email, phone, or messenger) prior to our session if possible.   A quiet time should be chosen when you can relax and enjoy the experience.  {No jumping dogs, children or spouses needing you for at least an hour, no cell phones calling....just you and I on the telephone, computer or just joined in mind and spirit for that special time.}   Please feel free to call or email me to talk about your session.   Discussion is always free.

{If you prefer, I can send Reiki long distances "without a phone call" for yourself, a relative, or friend, but do be sure the Reiki energy is wanted.}

   Please inquire for your rate depending on your need.    I refuse no one for lack of funds but do try to exchange something goods wise if not money wise.  I have some lovely quilting, some flowers, beautiful pictures, beads and more.   I will trade and barter to help you and yours to keep the energies balanced for both of us.  I work with all animals and adults and children.   Reiki classes are available at the shop, in person, or on the internet.  Level One is $75  Level Two is $100  Master Level please inquire to cost.

I am always available to seekers and students for questions and lots of practice.  I am your guide and teacher for life once you are attuned.

                               Contact me at chrystalpaths@yahoo.com      607-525-6610  315-730-3677

Reiki (pronounced ray-key) is a Japanese word representing universal life energy, the energy which is all around us. It is derived from rei: meaning "free passage"and ki: meaning "vital life force energy". 

The Japanese art of Reiki was discovered by Dr. Mikao Usui in 1922 when he went on a meditation and fasting retreat to Mount Kurama in Kyoto. Since that time, Reiki has spread all over the world, giving joy, healing, and happiness to millions of people from all races, religions and social backgrounds.

 

 

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REIKI LEVEL ONE MANUAL

WRITTEN BY SAGE

Each Reiki Master/Teacher has their own way of teaching....I hope you'll enjoy this bit of mine and if you have any questions or comments please feel free to share them.

This manual, {I smile, more missive} is very informal and may not have as much as others but, it holds within it the purity and truth of Reiki without frills and ego.  Take what you wish, learn all you can, then make Reiki your own in goodness and beauty and heal.  Class can be in person or via the internet and phone.

 

The Reiki Principles

Dr. Usui gave us the Reiki Life Principles to help orient our mind toward a more conscious life. 

He recited them each day, used them as affirmations with his students. 

Just for today-do not anger

Just for today-do not worry

Just for today-be grateful

Just for today-work hard

Just for today-be kind to others.

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Each morning {and night if you can} sit or stand, in the Gassho position and say the principles, let them echo in your mind and heart.

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Gassho

Very simply, Gassho is a way to ground and center your very loud and busy mind and body.  Sit comfortably on a mat or chair, {if sitting is difficult standing is fine} bring the palms of your hands together palm to palm with the pressure mostly at the tips of your middle fingers and hold them at about chest level but not resting on your body

{ if  you cannot hold your arms away,  this is fine...some even rest the tips of their fingers at the chin, pure intent is more important than form}

 Everybody breathes, BUT in truth, most do not.  Oh they live and breathe but to truly breathe one must find their center.  Your center is located about 3 fingers below your navel.  Place your hand softly there and breathe in through your nose...does your tummy lift? 

Probably not...most folks breathe in their upper chest, ribs and even then very shallowly.  I want you to close your eyes and breathe in gently trying to fill yourself gently with real breath and lift that part of your tummy.  Try to fill all of you gently, bronchials, lungs, and your center.  If you do it right, your tummy will lift!  Then slowly breathe out through soft pursed lips.  Do this several times and you should feel a relaxation fill you...a feeling of being centered and calm.  This is gassho.

Now you are ready to learn and experience Reiki and join me in the wonderful journey towards your first set of attunements to Level One.

I am a bit of different guide/teacher than some.  I would like very much for you to go find a nice surrogate...a stuffed bear or nice pillow, something you can practice on.  Each day I will fill your surrogate with Reiki energy when I do a nightly Reiju/Reiki to help guide and fill everyone who wishes it with light and energy.

To read a bit more about Reiju:

Ok what is Reiju you wonder yes?   Original meaning of the term: reiju?
Technically, the term reiju (in its purest sense) - depending on which of two specific kanji you use to write the ju part, can mean either 'to give spirit', or 'to receive spirit'.
  Reiju is a blessing, an empowerment, a sending of energy to those you intend..it fills each person with what they need.    
I send each and every night at 10pm EST.  By doing this each night I send it as a pebble to the pond of life creating wonderful ripples that never cease to flow.  Pick it up at that time or another, it floats waiting for anyone Reiki or not, to pick it up and you can pick it up more than once if you need that moment to center and find serenity again.  Welcome to the power and peace of the Reiju.

This is what you do to receive the Reiju empowerment:   You may sit or stand to receive.  Breathe to your tantien (your tummy) and find that calm center, stay with your hands in Gassho and say to yourself   "I am ready to receive Reiju from ______ now"

"Expect nothing--and everything else is a
bonus!!" as a friend says.

The ceremony of the doing Reiju takes minutes only but some sit quite a while bathe-ing in the energy, others find it a good beginning for their own or anothers healing.  Sip of it when you wish. {from Lighting the path Less Taken}

   I do not teach the hand positions you will find in other manuals {I can provide them} instead I ask you to trust your hands and your energy to guide you.  Use your surrogate or whom ever you have in hand to help.  Hand positions were taught to help with focus in large classes in Japan, for organizing and keeping the class together Reiki works if you wish it, intent is all, use the hand positions if they speak to you, or trust your hands to glide and speak...it is your choice.  Follow your inner voice and heart to reach the guides and ascended masters, and become Reiki.

   I encourage you to spend time searching on the computer reading and learning as much as you can about Reiki, Reiju, attunements and the history of Dr. Makao Usui.  I also provide info from other sources with the proper accreditations.

I will try to answer a few basic questions most seekers ask.

*What is Reiki?

  Dr. Usui's purpose was to teach/share Reiki to help people fulfill their lives in peace and happiness, to give them physical and mental and spiritual health.  In doing this they can enhance the happiness and wellness of those around them by healing not only themselves but others they encounter in poor health, a lost soul, or a challenged mind & heart.  Reiki does heal.  One session sometimes does amazing healing but you may find a series of sessions helps the healing continue and also helps get one's own body to healing itself.

*What does Reiki help?

   Reiki is effective for treating/healing all kinds of illness, both physical and psychological.  (emotional, mental, spiritual) Pain management, depression, grief, injury, burns, and more, Reiki can help in all things, with all things. 

*Can Reiki only heal the sick?

  No, it is effective for treating illness and sickness and injury but also heals trauma to mind/spirit as well as body.  Reiki helps with shyness, insecurity, depression, and more.  Reiki can only do good, it can never do harm.  By learning Reiki you heal yourself and can heal others, this brings great joy and peace to you and those you share with.

*Should this Healing Ability be limited to a select few?

  I smile.  No, it is in the sharing and teaching and learning that we expand ourselves and others. One at a time we help the world feel well, feel better and stronger, and in that, peace and hope can fill our world.  Pass it on is what Reiki is, life energy.   Reiki embodies this ability, this power, and is available for everyone to learn and practice with the proper guidance and attunements.  Anyone with hope and desire to help themselves and/or others can learn and practice Reiki healing.

 

*What does it feel like?

  Ah well, each individual feels Reiki differently.  Some do not feel much at all but do feel the effects it brings to their bodies, minds, and spirits.  Others will feel warmth, sometimes intense heat, some feel coolness, a tingling or pulsing can also been felt.  It truly depends on how the practitioner and the Reiki blends with who is being touched thus my suggesting the bear/pillow surrogate, though you can use your own body.  He, or she, will heat or cool or pulse just a human body would.  You should come to the Reiki with pure intent.  Make  your chosen surrogate your body and begin.
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   Now we will begin a bit of practice.  Here we are in this 21^st century full of amazing technology.  I wonder what Dr. Usui would have thought of utilizing the telephone, the computer and even web cams to teach and share his hopes and dreams that were that are...Reiki?

 

  What I like to do is take a bit of time often as we can and share with each other.  You already know your surrogate is filled each night with Reiki and you (hopefully) have sat with it either that night or the next day and tried to become one with it as your hands touch it, so that the energy flows into you from the surrogate.  As you touch the neck of the teddy (or whatever surrogate you chose) your own neck may grow warm....and so on down the surrogate.  Ok? Your hands become sensitive as you open to the Reiki as well.  Then contact me and we can discuss how you came to feel with the surrogate and what it brought it to you. 

 

  Most Level One students have a hard time understanding how to turn it on.   I smile.  Just think quietly or out loud, and ask the Masters and Guides, your totems and angels even, to grant you the power of Reiki intent  to help and to heal yourself (in Level 2 you add symbols if you wish to).

I do give my Level One students the Cho Ku Rei to help them manifest their blossoming Reiki energy.   I am forever available to you for any questions or difficulties.

  By practicing with the surrogate you get the feeling of bringing Reiki into you, and your hands, and/or body, may get warm or pulse or tingle.  We'll do this for a short while.  We can have our actual class in person, by phone, or IM, and even by cam on the computer.  We will have our question and answer time.   I will practice a bit of sending and you receive and share your feelings.   Now you are ready for your attunements.

 

   I will ask you to go sit comfortably and I will send you a distance Reiki, if we are working at a distance and then your attunements, if you are with me you will sit and receive.   Use all I have explained in the beginning to calm and relax then just let it be.  Later that day or the next, contact me again and we'll discuss your feelings and questions.  Mind you lay quiet after the session, take time to come back to yourself and breathe before getting up.  Drink lots of water, eat a light snack maybe and reflect on how you feel, what you felt.

 

    I encourage you to read everything you can get hold of about Reiki, be it a book, an online site, or other Reiki Practitioners to get a well rounded picture of Reiki.   You will find some who will say their variation of Reiki is the only way.  I smile, Reiki IS!  Dr. Usui discovered a pure energy to help and to heal while on his quest.  If your intent is pure, you can't do it wrong.   Remember Reiki can do no harm.

 

  I will include some links to online places I think you will enjoy reading.  I'll give you a book titled Light on the Origins of Reiki to keep.  Reiki has no EGO.  There is no place for ego, we are the vessel of light and healing.  You and Reiki become one, you become a vessel, a channel for the energy from Source, there is no need to work at it, it never drains your own energy, there is always enough, like love, to go around.

  As you work with Reiki each day, you will find when your hands come on they will travel the body and wish to stop now and then.  This is good, allow them to do this, trust your hands and the Reiki.  Trust your own instincts.  Allow your hands to remain if they wish to stop, they may get warm or hot, pulse or tingle...then, all this will slow or cool and you will know to move on. 

   Remember that Reiki will go to where ever it needs to go even if you touch only one part of yourself or another.  Practice, practice, practice...you can Reiki the water, the Earth, a tree, the flowers, your stones and crystals, your bed, your office,  your pets, your family, friends and do mind yourself especially.  Reiki heals the mind, body, and soul/spirit.  It can help the well rounded healthy person and the person in distress.  Reiki yourself each and every day!

 

  Oftimes a physical malady is manifested by an emotional or spiritual disharmony.  Grief is a huge one for putting things out of balance, as are stress and depression.

  I bring this writing to you just like we were talking together.  Reiki has such a wonderful history and you should read it to know it...so you can appreciate how it came to be.  This way you become the best vessel for the energy we are sharing with ourselves and others.

Links:

http://www.reikidharma.com/en/index_en.html

 http://www.aetw.org/reiki_101.html

   There is so much information online, and in books, just remember, we are not Source, God, Spirit, call it what you will..and yet we are divine...in our goodness and healing intent.

 

Reiki is pure intent and energy, it uses us as the vessel, it is not US. 

 

It should never drain you or make you feel depleted.  If it does you aren't trusting in the Reiki energy to heal and help yourself and others.   Through the trust and faith you can and will help and be helped living Reiki.

 A couple wonderful forums if you want to learn more about Reiki and so much more and to be able to discuss it with others:

http://lightingthepathlesstaken.myfastforum.org/index.php

http://northern-lights-healing.invisionzone.com/index.php

 

 

 

Time for your Level One Attunements

 

Now that you've spent this time with me, talking and sharing and practicing your ability to receive Reiki from both me and your surrogate...your attunement time comes.  We'll be very excited and anticipate it greatly.  You will be able to do the Reiki on yourself and others, all things can be Reiki-ed.

 

   Before your attunement I would like to know that you are comfortable and feel ready.  If the date we set turns out not to be the right day on that day? no worries...I trust in Spirit and the Guides and Masters...another day is always possible...so never hesitate to ask for a delay.

 

   To prepare for your attunement I hope you would sleep well the night before, eat lightly and drink plenty of water and reduce your caffeine intake.  When you are ready I will ask that you be sure your bladder is empty and you aren't hungry or thirsty and that you have enough time that day to be attuned and absorb it, then take the time to appreciate all it brought to you.  No pets or children during the session of attunement but after mind them to give you a quiet day if possible. 

 

  People can feel differently after an attunement.  Some feel alot, some feel very little.  Some people are very tired and will nap a bit, others are energized and feel amazing.  Some people can see and hear things, each attunement is very personal.  We will set a time and day, and discuss what you might expect and how long it may take.  We will connect first via Yahoo Messenger, phone or web cam if we have been working online, or if we've been working in person we will meet at Chrystal Path or your home.  Know that distance attunements are as powerful and attuning as in person.

 

   I will ask you to sit in a comfortable chair, but if it is more comfortable, you may lay down.  If we do it by cam or phone you may hear me, but it is not necessary.   I will touch you in several places and write the Cho Ku Rei symbol in your hands.  When we are done you should be able to feel me leave you but I will say "I am finished".   If we are on messenger I will buzz or make an already agreed upon sound so you may then just set or lay back and bask a while.  Take your time, there is no hurry to return to the world just let your mind run free and enjoy the feelings and thoughts that parade thru your mind.

 

   When you are ready contact me and we can discuss anything you wish.  You will feel wonderful after, no discomfort, or Reiki Flu as some speak of, at all.  Frequent bathroom breaks are completely normal, but if at any time you do not feel well, contact me and I will help.  Remember to use your Reiki too.

 

Some questions you may have after the attunements:

 

**Now how does one use this Reiki after being attuned? 

  Just be Reiki.  You can use words...a small ceremony or prayer to get the mind set and feel it turn on, if you wish.  This is how I began, now it is always on for me.  Find your own way and experience the many faceted feelings you encounter as you lay your hands on whatever and whomever you wish to heal or help.  Practice with your surrogate, it will react like a human with heat or cool, tingling or pulse, try it on your life partner or friend, even your family and pets! ï¿½Yourself!�   Some folks like to keep a Reiki journal.

 

***How do I know when it is on and when it stops? 

  Well this takes practice and each person has their own feelings when it comes and goes.  For me it is much like a hot flash in my face and hands, then it will heat up where needed or cool down when not as I move my hands on the one I work.   You can move your hands round a body trying to feel for one of these sensations.  Trust your hands and the Reiki within you, for you are a channel...it is NOT you who heals.  If your instincts say to pause...pause and let the energy flow, you'll instinctively know when to move, stop, and move on.  Trust yourself and the Reiki to find the blocked or sick parts...this is known as Byosan...go with the flow is my best advice.  Trust yourself and the channel you've become to learn every day about yourself and Reiki and how you will live together from now on.   Remember you can touch {or hover} in one place and the Reiki will go where it is needed if you cannot travel the body.

 

***When is it time for my Level 2?

  Each is different...some come sooner, some later.  I like to see the new Level One student seekers practice a good bit with this new found wonder.  Level 2 is for distant Reiki and you will learn more symbols.  Usually your master/teacher/guide will know when you ask if it is time or your master may ask you.  Also you are under no obligation to stay with your original guide/teacher/master either.  Oftimes we meet others who peak our interest, this is allowed, trust your instincts again...but do be sure the Reiki they teach and share is pure of intent as Usui wanted it to be.  Reiki IS, to use it for the betterment of life was his hope.  Use it thus and your life can't help but be better. 

 

***Can I Reiki me?

  PLEASE DO!!!!!! every day/night if you can please.  Say your little prayer, do your wee ceremony to turn it on then let your hands fall where they will on your body....then soak it up...you'll fall right to sleep and heal at the same time.  I love my nightly Reiju/Reiki....it is a good habit to manifest for each new seeker.

 

I wish you peace and healing  Now walk in beauty and in a good way...remember the Reiki principles and do your best to honor them each day.  This is not always easy but when you begin feeling a bit harried and fractured?  STOP, center and Reiki and you will feel much better.

 

Much love and light      Sage

Level Two Reiki class w/ attunement  $100.00 

Master attunements, please inquire at

chrystalpaths@yahoo.com

My mailing address: DS Chapman  PO Box 37  Knoxville Pa 16928

Chrystal Path is located at 310 Main St in the Knoxville Community Center. 

Feel free to come by.

You are welcome to call me if you have a need or question but do try to do so after 8am and before 9pm if possible, if it is really important you can reach me anytime day or night.  I am always available to my students and seekers.  607 525 6610